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ManagedMethods, a new contender in the cloud access security space, today announced its latest release of Cloud Access Monitor, a software solution that gives companies visibility into the usage and potential risk associated with using both sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud applications. The software’s flexible architecture allows for deployment on premises, in the Cloud or a hybrid of both.

More than 80 percent of employees admit to using non-approved SaaS applications in their jobs according to Frost and Sullivan. A 2015 report from the Cloud Security Alliance found only eight-percent of companies know the scope of Shadow IT at their organizations and an overwhelming 72-percent of companies surveyed said they did not know the scope of Shadow IT but want to.

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a new software release for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to enhance its comprehensive SDN portfolio built on open APIs, open standards and a broad ecosystem for customer choice and flexibility. New software capabilities enhance ACI with microsegmentation for both physical (bare metal) applications and multivendor virtualized applications (VMware VDS, Microsoft Hyper-V) and extend ACI across multi-site environments to deliver policy-driven automation across multiple data centers.

Cisco also added integration of Docker containers through contributions to open source, offering customers a consistent policy model and greater deployment flexibility using the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).

Talligent, the leading provider of cost and capacity management solutions for OpenStack and hybrid clouds, today announced the general availability of Openbook v3 and is scheduling demos and evaluations of its new functionality.  Openbook is cloud management software that simplifies the tasks of planning, charging, and predicting capacity requirements for cloud services.  Talligent gives the administrator and tenant real-time visibility of resources and accrued costs, as well as the ability to scale up or down according to budget and resource requirements.

Enterprise adoption of OpenStack is growing quickly, driven by the interest in providing on-demand cloud services behind the firewall.  Private cloud deployments increase the agility of IT departments to respond to infrastructure requests, increase control of company digital assets, and reduce the need for shadow IT services from public cloud providers.  In response to this increase in market demand, Talligent has added functionality to support private cloud use cases such as chargeback, utilization tracking for sprawl control, single pane of glass view of hybrid clouds, and capacity reporting to improve resource and budget planning of cloud growth.

Combining Blue Coat’s award-winning Cloud Generation Web Gateway with Dimension Data’s global managed security services portfolio provides customers with real-time threat protection — all without the need for on-site equipment. This new offering also helps organizations deploy new secure, cost-effective cloud service and web applications. In addition, customers are able to enforce consistent global security policies across wired, roaming, and mobile environments.

Zenoss, Inc., the leader in unified IT monitoring and analytics software, today announced its “Call for Speakers” for GalaxZ 16, the company’s annual user conference. The event will be held May 10-12, 2016 at the JW Marriott in Austin, Texas and is expected to attract hundreds of attendees.’

GalaxZ 16 is looking for IT professionals to present challenges, strategies and success stories in how-to and case study sessions. Conference sessions will cover topics and specialties spanning all facets of innovative and advanced approaches to infrastructure monitoring and analytics.

6WIND Virtual Accelerator is a software package that deploys transparently within Linux’s KVM hypervisor domain on x86 servers to accelerate virtual infrastructure so that Virtual Machine (VM) based application performance approaches bare metal while remaining hardware independent. Virtual Accelerator removes performance bottlenecks in the virtual networking infrastructure with support for Open vSwitch, Linux bridge, multi-tenancy, security, filtering and guest processing offloads. It reduces CPU resources necessary for packet processing in the hypervisor so that more cores are available for applications.

Grazed from TheCSuite. Author: Editorial Staff.

2015 has been the year the Enterprise Cloud came of age, but we haven’t seen anything yet says Bibi Bajwa, COO of cloud services provider Ormuco. Most commentators agree that the future – for businesses, governments and consumers – will be cloud-powered. The question is, which cloud?

Where does Watson live?

No, not Baker Street. We’re talking about IBM’s Watson, the natural language processing, machine learning, Jeopardy!-winning, artificial intelligence software. This Watson lives in the cloud. As do Siri and Cortana, the virtual assistants from Apple and Microsoft. The reason is that all these applications have to understand naturally spoken language. Which might be easy for human brains but requires staggering amounts of processing power for computers to do well…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Larry Loeb.

During its history, Amazon has managed to conquer the book market, traditional retail, and, through Amazon Web Services, cloud computing. Now, thanks to two patents it was awarded on Dec. 1, it seems the company has more plans for your living room than just its Echo voice-controlled device.

The US Patent and Trademark Office granted the Seattle company a patent for technologies that can project an augmented reality representation into a room (#9,204,121) and another patent that provides a way to navigate that world (#9,201,499). The patents were submitted by Rawles LLC of Wilmington, Del., in February 2013 and officially assigned to Amazon this week…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Jennifer Klostermann.

For those in the tech arena – and let’s face it, we’re all in the tech arena somehow – a few abilities are topping all of the must-have skills lists. Inc. points to the growth of Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Data Virtualization as three of the six major trends we should all be keeping up with, supported by countless other industry analysts.

Data and Cloud technologies have effectively transformed both our personal and business landscapes, so skilling up in these areas is a necessity. This year, the Cloud will become the “new normal”, reports TechRadar. Dramatically cutting cost by digitizing information-intensive processes, it’s been predicted that the end of 2015 will see a world of hybrid deployments…